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Double Skin Pewter Bowl

Artist Keith Tyssen (Yorkshire, England, born 1934)

Object NameBowl

Mediumpewter

ClassificationsApplied Art

DimensionsOverall: Height: 10.5 cm, Diameter: 30.3 cm, Weight: 2024g

AcquisitionPurchased in 1999 with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions.

LocationOn Display - Gallery 05

Object numberABDAG011118

Keywords

About MeSheffield-based Keith Tyssen designs modern pewter-ware in a series of small editions using methods of hand-skilled production by craftspeople in his local area. He works towards a minimal look, with a strong, solid substantial appearance. The bowl is a double skin construction and which began life as two large flat discs of sheet pewter. The discs are formed up by hand-touch pressure over a rotating former - a bit like a potter making a vessel on a wheel. The foot is carefully soldered on before buffing.

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This bowl started from two pewter discs shaped by hand on a “former”, then soldered together and buffed.

Exhibitions

Gallery 05 - Crafting Colour